Bill Frezza is a 35-year veteran of the technology industry. After graduating from MIT with degrees in both science and engineering, Bill spent his early years at Bell Laboratories. Since then, he has worked as a product manager, salesman, marketer, entrepreneur, consultant, technology evangelist, and venture capitalist. Bill holds seven patents and has been investing in early-stage tech startups for the last 17 years as a partner in a venture capital firm. Since 2008, he has been writing weekly opinion columns for publications such as RealClearMarkets.com, Forbes.com, the Huffington Post and Bio-IT World and appeared regularly on TV and radio outlets, including CNBC, Fox Business and WBAL. In 2011, he was a finalist for the Hoiles Prize for excellence in American journalism and in October 2013, he became the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s 2013-2014 Warren T. Brookes Journalism Fellow. In January 2014, Bill began hosting RealClear Radio Hour airing Saturdays on Boston’s WXKS 1200AM & WJMN 94.5FM-HD2.

Prediction: Romney Crushes Obama In Presidential Election Blowout

Put this column in a drawer and take it out on the date below. Let me know how many of these predictions I got right.

November 7, 2012 – It may not be morning in America, but be thankful that it’s not the dawn of the living dead. With civil war breaking out in Greece, Spain in chaos as it seeks to exit the euro, California preparing to file bankruptcy following the failure of Governor Jerry Brown’s budget referendum, and Portland, Oakland, and Seattle busy clearing the rubble from the devastation of their Occupy fires, the American electorate has finally said “Enough!”

The great experiment in “progressive” democracy is over. Convincing a majority of American voters that they can live at someone else’s expense proved a bridge too far, as those same voters watched the social democracies of Europe unravel. When presented with a choice between two presidential candidates with diametrically opposed visions of the proper role of government, Americans chose to step back from the abyss.

To no one’s surprise, the campaign was ugly. As each successive poll revealed incumbent President Barack Obama slipping further behind, the Obama camp’s attacks grew ever shriller. Class, gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexuality—no variant of identity politics was left untapped in what turned out to be a futile attempt to divide the electorate into warring camps and shift the debate to anything besides the deteriorating economy and the cataclysmic national debt.

The Supreme Court’s evisceration of Obamacare—the president’s signature “accomplishment”—set the tone for a long, hot summer. The Occupy movement’s escalating campaign of violence, which culminated in major street battles at both national conventions, did little to help Obama’s cause. Persistently high unemployment, coupled with an inflationary uptick as the Federal Reserve made a desperate attempt to launch yet another round of “quantitative easing,” reminded too many voters of life under Jimmy Carter.

The bankruptcy of A123, Fisker Automotive, and a half dozen more solar and biofuel ventures that received hundreds of millions in tax dollars rang the death knell for Obama’s green energy policies. The final nail into the coffin of the failed Obama presidency came from Europe, as Germany and France finally jettisoned the PIIGS to save the Eurozone core—but not soon enough to avert a deep recession in Europe and a 20% decline in U.S. stock markets.

While the charisma-challenged Mitt Romney never managed to ignite the Republican base—which remains suspicious of his conservative bona fides—the right still managed to close ranks behind their man, largely out of fear of what a second Obama term would mean for America.

Mitt stuck to the economic high ground. Meanwhile, his campaign staff and cloud of well-funded SuperPAC proxies proved adept at throwing counter-punches, responding to every below-the-belt political assault launched Mitt’s way with well-prepared counter narratives, widely disseminated across a network of right-leaning bloggers, Facebook activists, and radio talk show personalities.

Wading through the maelstrom, the Romney campaign remained focused on selling the idea that what the nation most needed was a return to economic sanity. Mitt’s public persona, never well matched with the vampire capitalist, out-of-touch plutocrat, Mormon underwear-wearing weirdo opponents made him out to be, finally gelled into one of mature competence that reassured voters that he was the man to help fix the mess we’ve gotten into.

Throughout it all, the mainstream media never found its legs. Always a step behind the Twitter blitzkriegs unleashed by millions of freelance citizen reporters, YouTube videographers, amateur pundits, and independent campaign organizations, professional journalists and the editors that issue their marching orders found that the day’s news had already been framed by the time they got out of bed each morning.

What made defeat all the more devastating for yesteryear’s media moguls was the decision to throw away the last shred of their purported objectivity by going all-in behind their candidate. Their failure to sway the election made it clear that a handful of White House Correspondents’ Dinner elites in New York, Washington, and Hollywood have lost their power to shape public opinion.

As the pending electoral deluge drew near and the liberal commentariat began turning on Obama, the American public was treated to the sorry spectacle of rats deserting a sinking ship as political insiders jockeyed to land the first big advance for a tell-all book dissecting the meltdown. By the time Election Day rolled around, it was all over but the counting.

The path ahead will be long and hard, and the rejuvenated Republican Party and its new president have yet to give a sign as to how they plan to tackle the entitlement tsunami that threatens to drown us all. But with veto proof majorities in both the House and Senate, they now own the problem.

You’ve just signed up for the hardest job on the planet, Mitt. And this time, if you can’t figure out how to turn things around, you can’t fire sale the wreckage and hope the rest of your portfolio makes up for the loss. The eyes of the world are upon you. This is democracy’s last chance. Don’t blow it.

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Two months out and your “predictions” don’t appear to be holding up. Which is a good thing. Reading your opinion it would seem that you desire the world to fall apart as it is the only way for Romney to be elected. Better prediction, Obama reelected, Republicans take senate, EU continues on its slow downward trend until the US economy picks up and saves Europe by making the Euro weak against the dollar.

So far your prediction on the U.S. presidential campaign is wrong at this point with each successive poll it seems Obama is inching his lead up little by little. It is Romney who is slowly slipping behind.

Knowing that you keep up with the $$$$$$$ people I am asking why Romneys superpac’s have NOT attacked Obama about all the dead servicemen who were killed while Obama twiddled his thumbs debating whether to do the surge , if you remmeber it took Obama more than a month and over 100 men lost there lives because of Obama’s inaction there here are angry parents out there wanting to know why he used American soldiers lives while he thought out his losing stratagy. Obama is using that steel worker wifes cancers as his attack and I thinkl US Army or Marines parents should be equal to the task of showing his true colors..tit for tat,, Obama Lier in chief

The fact is this, Obama lied. Simple and true. He said he was closing gitmo, didn’t. he said he was going to reduce unemployment, he didn’t. He said he was going to (constitutional guy) retract the Patriot Act, he didn’t. He said he was going to unite the nation, we are more dividied than ever. He said he was going to create many green jobs, not only did he not, he lost us money on several boondoggles. Soylndra being the greates. He said he would give us hope, well he made good on that we are now hoping to God someone saves us. Change, yes but be careful waht you ask for. We are in dire straitrs here, and not the rock band. We are so in debt I doubt it is even possible to dig out of it. White people voted for him to exculpate their guilt, blacks because he was black, minorities because he is a minority. This guy is a straight up communist and we can see this does not work, even the USSR saw it didn’t work. And then we come to the real coup de grace, Obama has ordered illegals legal, jus like that. Dream Act or whatever other program, usually they call it comprehensive, when they add this beware, has made outsiders aliens from other nations voters. Telling us what laws to enact, like giving them citizenship. We are in deep trouble, ading more and more ingredients to a revolution stew.

It’s hard to take you seriously when our country is so divided that a blowout is almost impossible. Additionally, Romney has a lot of electoral votes to make up. Currently, Obama’s in the lead for electoral votes based on polls. Sure, Romney may win the popular vote, but that doesn’t matter.

The comments have been an interesting read. I am shocked that so many non-conservatives read Forbes. I have saved this article to take out on November 8, 2012 simply to be able to send an email to the author and ask him how he would like his “CROW” cooked. There is a conspiracy theory going around that Abraham Lincoln was not shot by John Wilkes Booth. It states that before he went to the Ford Theatre he went to a fortune teller and in her magic crystal ball he saw what his beloved Republican Party was going to turn into in the 2000′s and went straight to the theatre and committed suicide.

All I will say is that in listening to my average friends…MANY of those on the left have stated they are going to vote differently, for Romney. I haven’t heard ANY one on the right say they are going to change their vote to the current administration. Obama’s in trouble! It’s all going to come down to the debates and who can mobilize their voter base. Romney will prevail if he (and Ryan) can hold their own.